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The letter went on to say, "Ramana Maharshi is an exponent ofAjata doctrine of Advaita Vedanta. Of course, it is a bit difficult."

Bhagavan remarked on this: "Somebody has told him so. I do notteach only the Ajata doctrine. I approve of all schools. The sametruth has to be expressed in different ways to suit the capacityof the hearer. The Ajata doctrine says: "Nothing exists exceptthe one Reality. There is no birth or death, no projection (of theworld) or drawing in (of it), no sadhaka, no mumukshu (seekerof liberation), no mukta (liberated one), no bondage, no liberation.The one Unity alone exists ever."

"To such as find it difficult to grasp this truth and who ask:"How can we ignore this solid world we see all around us?" thedream experience is pointed out and they are told , "All thatyou see depends on the seer. Apart from the seer, there is noseen."

"This is called drishti-srishti vada, or the argument one first createsout of his mind and then sees what his mind itself has created.

" To such as cannot grasp even this and who further argue,

"The dream experience is so short, while the world always exists.The dream experience was limited to me. But the world is feltand seen not only by me, but by so many, and we cannot callsuch a world as non-existenct," the argument called srishti-drishtivada is addressed and they are told:

"God first created such and such a thing, out of such and suchan element and then something else, and so forth."

"That alone will satisfy this class. Their mind is otherwise notsatisfied and they ask themselves, "How can all geography, allmaps, all sciences, stars, planets and the rules governing or relatingto them and all knowledge be totally untrue?"

"To such it is best to say, "Yes. God created all this and youso you see it."

Dr. M said, "But all these cannot be true; only one doctrine canbe true."

Bhagavan Ramana said: "All these are only to suit the capacityof the learner. The absolute can only be one."

Brahmasri Nochur Venkataraman says two stories in this context.

One is the mother telling a story of the sons of a barren womanwho went sky ward through the wind, plucked the flowers in purespace, and got down to drink the water from a mirage. The childlistens to the story so that it could eat the food it refused. Butthe whole story is an impossibility! The purpose is to feed thechild. If the child is intelligent, he would first ask: How can therebe sons for a barren woman? The story cannot proceed further....

Another example, not a story, is that there is only one woman.The son calls her as Mother. The father calls her as his wife.The father-in-law calls her as his daughter in law. The womanis the same housewife. Only approaches of addressing her aredifferent.